HOLLOW GROUND
WARLORD Compilation 2014
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TRACKLIST
Disc 1
1. Flying High
2. Warlord
3. Rock On
4. Don't Chase the Dragon
5. Fight with the Devil
6. The Holy One
7. Rock to Love
8. Promised Land
9. Easy Action
10. Loser
Disc 2
11. Flying High
12. Promised Land
13. Rock On
14. Rock to Love
15. Warlord
16. Breaking Out
17. Easy Action
18. Fight with the Devil
19. The Holy One
20. Poltergeist
21. Don't Chase the Dragon
Track 1-10 recorded at Guardian Studios, Pity Me, Durham.
Track 11-21 recorded at rehearsals on a Phillips cassette recorder. Not produced by anyone. Previously released as "Raw Tapes '79" CDr for the "Headbangers Open Air 2007".
LINEUP
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Glenn Coates (vocals)
Martin Metcalf (guitar)
Brian Rickman (bass)
John Lockney (drums)
HOLLOW GROUND COULD BE THE ONLY NWOBHM BAND EVER WITH NO LINEUP CHANGES!
With just four compilation tracks and one 7" EP issued in the early 1980s, Hollow Ground did have a rather low profile at the time of the original New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement. However, their first and only single »Flying High« (issued on the collectable Guardian Records label) became an instant collector's item. Today copies with the scarce picture sleeve fetch rather insane prices. Before the release of the single Hollow Ground had recorded the four songs 'Rock On', 'Fight With The Devil', 'Flying High' and 'The Holy One' for the Guardian compilation album »Roksnax« (the album was re-issued on CD via Cherry Red Records/British Steel in 1996). Hollow Ground carried on to record more material (such as 'Promised Land', 'Easy Action', 'Rock To Love' or 'Loser') but an album deal was not on the cards. As a result singer Glenn Coates left to join local rivals Fist and Hollow Ground split up in mid-1981.